Hey. We’re going to be interrupting our regularly scheduled essays for MOTHERFUCKING LUDUM DARE. If you’re not familiar, Ludum Dare is a 48 hour game making competition, challenging designers to create a whole game over a weekend. I’ve participated before,…
So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting with these shorter-form essays, 300-500 words, and for the most part I’m really digging the results. 500 words is the perfect length, I think, to capture an idea, and usually…
This week is proving to be, even by recent standards, exceptionally chaotic. I’m not sure if I’ll have the time for the usual two-essays a week, so instead I’m going to try to post a few mini-essays, 200-500 words in…
Okay, I need to start writing these the day before. Lesson learned. I’m going to be trying to make an extra special double-length article for this Friday. I’ve got something long and lousy right now, so hopefully by then I’ll…
It’s Saturday and I’m still alive. I’ve managed to do a thousand word essay a day for four days in a row now, sufficient to make this site meaty enough that a first-time reader will have something to sink their…
Today is the day I start trying to promote the Problem Machine, to spread awareness of it beyond my immediate circle of friends and family. I’m basically terrified. Some things come easily to me. I’ve always been creatively inclined, probably…
Yes. I’m going to write a few words now about why I’m creating this blog and what I hope it will become. You will read these words. It will be swell. This is the Problem Machine. It makes problems, it…
